Mare Nostrum

Latin

FWOTD – 3 March 2019

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈma.rɛ ˈnɔs.trũː]

Proper noun

Mare Nostrum n sg (genitive Maris Nostrī); third declension

  1. Mediterranean Sea (a sea), Literally, Our Sea
    • 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, vi, 47 (alt. 32):
      [] multis gentibus eorum deductis illo a Tigrane Magno, sponte vero ad mare nostrum litusque Aegyptium []
      [] many of their tribes having been brought to that place by Tigranes the Great, but [some having come] willingly to the Mediterranean and the Egyptian coast []

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem) with a second-declension adjective, singular only.

singular
nominative Mare Nostrum
genitive Maris Nostrī
dative Marī Nostrō
accusative Mare Nostrum
ablative Marī Nostrō
vocative Mare Nostrum

Synonyms

Spanish

Proper noun

Mare Nostrum m

  1. Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea
    Synonyms: mar Mediterráneo, Mediterráneo